This article surveys the recently emerged field of reverse logistics. The management of
return flows induced by the various forms of reuse of products and materials in industrial …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the field of closed-loop supply chains
with a strong business perspective, ie, we focus on profitable value recovery from returned …

This paper surveys algorithms for the well-known problem of finding the minimum cost
assignment of jobs to agents so that each job is assigned exactly once and agents are not …

Reverse logistics concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply
chain as valuable resources. Economic, marketing, and legislative drivers increasingly are …

Operations management researchers and practitioners face new challenges in integrating
issues of sustainability with their traditional areas of interest. During the past 20 years, there …

This paper builds on the idea that private sector logistics can and should be applied to improve
the performance of disaster logistics but that before embarking on this the private sector …

The traditional approach of many manufacturers towards used products has been to ignore
them. Manufacturers typically did not feel responsible for what happened with their products …

The importance of remanufacturing used products into new ones has been widely recognized
in the literature and in practice. In this paper, we address the problem of choosing the …

Synchronous presentation of stimuli to the auditory and visual systems can modify the formation
of a percept in either modality. For example, perception of auditory speech is improved …

Efficient implementation of closed‐loop supply chains requires setting up appropriate logistics
structures for the arising flows of used and recovered products. In this paper we consider …